While you live, live in clover. For when you're dead, you're dead all over.' — Squizzy Taylor

Standover man. Armed robber. Sly-grog and drug dealer. Murderer.

Touch the Black brings the secret world of Squizzy Taylor to life — from from the back streets of Richmond to the Fitzroy Vendetta and the deadly shoot-out with Snowy Cutmore

In razor-sharp prose touched with poetry Chris Grierson recreates 1920s Melbourne and the events that marked the rise and fall of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters.

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About the Author

Chris Grierson is the author of poetry, short stories, and novels. His writing has been published in Overland, Going Down Swinging, Meanjin, and other Australian literary journals and in the Age newspaper. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and children.

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